National Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson announced on Tuesday that he was establishing an Infrastructure Advisory Committee, in his office, to help drive forward infrastructure development in the country, which was urgently needed. He was delivering the keynote address at the Infrastructure Africa 2024 Conference, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. The roles of the new committee would be to help “reimagine” the country’s infrastructure, develop new funding models that would attract private sector investment in projects, and help unblock and accelerate infrastructure development across all three levels of government (national, provincial and local). He stressed the need for coordination, in infrastructure development, across all three of these levels. “We must turn South Africa into a construction site!” he affirmed, several times, during his address, noting that he was consciously repeating it.
